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AP English Reading List
Listed by Author
According to the College Board Advanced
Placement program: "The AP English course in Literature and Composition
should engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of
imaginative literature. ...Reading in an AP course should be both wide
and deep."
The following list of authors and works has been compiled using a
variety of sources with a strong emphasis on the authors suggested by
the College Board. In order to provide students with reading that is
"both wide and deep," the selections range in age from early Greek
drama to contemporary works. They also range in genre, ethnicity, and
original language. Please refer to the College
Board's AP Central for additional information.
The Writing Tutor suggests that students enrolled in AP English classes
also speak to their AP English teachers to determine the best
supplemental reading choices to prepare for the AP test and for college.
Although many of the selections listed below are intended for the more
mature reader (11th or 12th grade and beyond), some are perfectly
acceptable for the younger advanced reader. It is assumed that students
interested in taking an AP English course and/or test have read
extensively prior to taking the course. As stressed by the College
Board, the depth of reading required to excel in an AP class and on the
AP test necessitates that students "build upon reading done in previous
English classes."
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The works listed below are
divided into drama, fiction
(novels &
short stories), expository prose, and poetry. In general, these works
have a greater degree of difficulty than those listed in the Classic
& Contemporary Literature section, although there is some
overlap.
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to alphabetical listing by title.
Drama
A, B, C
Aeschylus
(Prometheus
Bound)
Edward
Albee (Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Amiri Baraka (Dutchman)
Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
Anton
Chekhov (The
Cherry Orchard)
William Congreve (The Way of the World)
G, H, I
Oliver
Goldsmith (She Stoops to
Conquer)
Lorraine Hansberry (A Raisin in the
Sun)
Lillian Hellman (The
Children's Hour, The Little Foxes)
David
Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly)
Henrik Ibsen (The Wild Duck, A Doll's
House, Hedda Gabler)
M, O, P
Arthur
Miller (Death
of a Salesman)
Moliere (The
Misanthrope, Tartuffe)
Sean
O'Casey (The
Harvest Festival)
Eugene O'Neill (Long Day's Journey
into
Night, The Iceman Cometh)
Harold Pinter (Homecoming)
Luigi Pirandello
(Six
Characters in Search of an Author)
S, V, W
William
Shakespeare (Hamlet, King Lear, Othello)
Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus
Rex)
Tom Stoppard (Arcadia, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern
are Dead)
Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit)
Oscar
Wilde (The
Importance of Being Earnest)
Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named
Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, The Glass Menagerie)
August Wilson (Fences)
Fiction
(Novel &
Short Story)
A, B
Chinua Achebe
(Things
Fall Apart)
Julia
Alvarez (In
the Time of the
Butterflies)
Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim)
Martin Amis (Time's Arrow)
Rudolfo Anaya
(Serafina's
Stories)
Margaret
Atwood (The
Handmaid's Tale, Alias
Grace, Surfacing)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
James Baldwin (Go
Tell It on the Mountain)
Saul Bellow (The Adventures of
Augie March)
Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)
Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
C
Italo Calvino
(Invisible
Cities, The Baron in the
Trees)
Albert
Camus (The
Plague, The Stranger)
Truman
Capote (In
Cold Blood)
Raymond Carver
(Cathedral)
Willa Cather (Death Comes for the
Archbishop, O
Pioneers!)
Sandra Cisneros
(The
House on Mango Street)
John Cheever
(The
Wapshot Scandal)
Kate
Chopin (The
Awakening)
Joseph
Conrad
(Heart
of Darkness)
Stephen
Crane (The
Red Badge of Courage)
D
Louis DeBernieres
(Corelli's
Mandolin)
Don
DeLillo (Libra)
Anita Desai (Clear Light of
Day)
Charles Dickens (A Tale
of Two Cities, Great
Expectations)
E.L.
Doctorow (Ragtime)
Fyodor
Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment, Notes from
Underground, The Idiot)
Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie)
E, F
George Eliot
(Middlemarch)
Ralph Ellison (The Invisible Man)
Louise Erdich
(Antelope
Wife)
William
Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the
Fury)
Henry Fielding (Tom
Jones)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(The
Great
Gatsby, Babylon Revisited)
Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier)
E.M.
Forster (A
Passage to India)
John Fowles (The French
Lieutenant's
Woman, The Magus)
G, H
Myla Goldberg
(Bee
Season)
Graham Greene (The Heart of the
Matter)
Jane
Hamilton (A
Map of the World, The Book of
Ruth)
Thomas Hardy (Tess of
the
D'Urbervilles)
Nathaniel
Hawthorne (The House of the
Seven Gables)
Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, Islands in the
Stream)
Hermann
Hesse (Siddhartha)
Zora Neale
Hurston (Their
Eyes Were Watching God)
I, J, K
Kazuo
Ishiguro (Remains of the Day)
Henry James (The Aspern Papers, The
American)
Ha Jin (Waiting)
James Joyce (Dubliners)
Franz
Kafka (The
Metamorphosis)
Maxine Hong
Kingston (The Woman Warrior)
Joy Kogawa
(Obasan)
Milan Kundera (The Unbearable
Lightness of Being)
L, M
Margaret
Laurence (The Stone Angel)
D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)
Bernard
Malamud (The
Fixer, The Natural)
Katherine Mansfield (The Garden Party
and Other Stories)
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years
of
Solitude)
Bobbie Ann Mason
(In
Country)
Cormac McCarthy (Blood
Meridian)
Carson McCullers
(The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
Member
of the Wedding)
Herman
Melville (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
Toni Morrison
(Jazz, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
Bharati Mukherjee
(Desirable
Daughters, Tree Bride)
N, O, P
Vladimir
Nabokov (Lolita)
Joyce Carol
Oates (We
Were the Mulvaneys)
Tim
O'Brien (Going
After Cacciato, In the Lake of the
Woods)
Flannery
O'Connor (Wise Blood)
George
Orwell (1984)
Cynthia Ozick (Heir to the
Glimmering World)
Alan
Paton (Cry
the Beloved Country)
Iain
Pears (An
Instance of the Fingerpost)
Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools)
R, S, T
Erich Maria
Remarque (All Quiet on the
Western
Front)
Jean Rhys (Voyage in
the
Dark)
JeanPaul Sartre (No Exit)
Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
Jean Toomer (Cane)
Ivan
Sergeevich
Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)
Mark Twain (The Adventures of
Tom
Sawyer, The Adventures of
Huckleberry
Finn)
U, V, W
John Updike
(Gertrude
and Claudius)
Luisa
Valenzuela (Clara)
Kurt
Vonnegut
(Slaughterhouse
Five)
Alice
Walker (Temple
of My Familiar)
Evelyn
Waugh (Brideshead
Revisited, The Loved One)
Eudora Welty (The
Optimist's Daughter)
Edith
Wharton (The
House of Mirth)
John Edgar
Wideman (Brothers
and Keepers)
Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)
Richard Wright (Native Son)
Note: Most of the above selections
are novelshowever, many of these authors have also written short
stories.
Expository
Prose
A, B, C
Joseph
Addison (Commerce
of Everyday Life:
Selections from the Tatler and the
Spectator)
Gloria Anzaldua
(Borderlands/La
Frontera)
Matthew Arnold
(Culture
and Anarchy)
James
Baldwin (Notes
of a Native Son)
James
Boswell (The
Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's London
Journal)
Thomas
Carlyle (French
Revolution: A History)
Jesus Colon (The Way it Was and
Other Writings)
E, H, J
Ralph Waldo
Emerson (Self-Reliance
and Other
Essays)
William Hazlitt (Table-Talk, Essays on Men and
Manners)
Samuel Johnson (Samuel Johnson: The
Major
Works)
L, M, O
Charles Lamb
(Charles
Lamb: Selected Writings)
Norman Mailer (The Spooky Art:
Thoughts on Writing)
Mary
McCarthy (Memories of a
Catholic Girlhood)
H.L. Mencken (Treatise on the Gods)
John Stuart Mill (On Liberty and
other Essays)
George
Orwell (Homage
to Catalonia, A Collection of
Essays)
S, T, W
Richard
Steele (Commerce
of Everyday Life:
Selections from the Tatler and the
Spectator)
Lewis Thomas (A
General Theory of Love)
Henry David
Thoreau (Walden
and Civil Disobedience)
Barbara Tuchman (The March of
Folly)
Virginia Woolf (Moments
of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical
Writings)
Collections
The
following collections include essays written by many of the authors
listed above.
Best
American Essays of the
Century (compiled by Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan)
The Art of
the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
(compiled by Phillip Lopate)
Americans
in Paris: A Literary Anthology
(compiled by Adam Gopnik)
Poetry
A, B
W.H. Auden
(Poems
of W.H. Auden)
Elizabeth Bishop (The Complete Poems
1927-1979)
William Blake (Songs of Innocence
and
Experience, The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell)
Anne
Bradstreet (Works of Anne
Bradstreet)
Edward
Kamau Brathwaite (Roots)
Gwendolyn Brooks (Selected Poems)
Robert
Browning (Robert Browning's
Poetry)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (Lord
Byron: Poems)
C, D, E, F
Geoffrey
Chaucer (The
Canterbury Tales)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner)
H.D.
Hilda Doolittle (Helen in Egypt)
Emily
Dickinson (The Collected Poems
of
Emily Dickinson)
John
Donne (John
Donne's Poetry)
Rita Dove (On
the Bus with Rosa Parks)
T.S. Eliot
(The
Waste Land and Other Poems)
Robert Frost (Stopping by the
Woods
on a Snowy Evening)
H, J, L
Joy Harjo
(How We
Became Human)
Seamus
Heaney (Opened
Ground: Selected Poems)
George Herbert (The Compete English
Poems)
Garrett Hongo (Yellow
Light: Poems)
Gerard
Manley Hopkins (Mortal Beauty, God's Grace)
Langston Hughes (Collected Poems of
Langston Hughes)
Ben
Johnson (Ben
Johnson)
John Keats (The
Complete Poems of John Keats)
Philip Larkin
(Collected
Poems)
Robert
Lowell (Life
Studies/For the Union
Dead)
M, P
Andrew Marvell
("To
His Coy Mistriss" & Other
Poems)
John Milton (Paradise
Lost)
Marianne Moore (The Poems of
Marianne
Moore)
Sylvia Plath (The Bell
Jar)
Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar
Allan Poe: Selected Poems and Tales)
Alexander Pope (The Rape of the
Lock
and Other Poems)
R, S, T
Adrienne
Rich (The
School Among the Ruins:
Poems 2000-2004)
William
Shakespeare
(The
Sonnets)
Percy Bysshe
Shelley (Shelley's
Poetry and Prose)
Leslie Marmon Silko (Storyteller)
Cathy Song (Picture Bride)
Alfred,
Lord Tennyson (Idylls of the King, In Memoriam)
W, Y
Derek Walcott
(Collected
Poems, 1948-1984)
Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)
Richard
Wilbur (Collected
Poems, 1943-2004)
William Carlos Williams
(Paterson)
William Wordsworth
(William
Wordsworth — the Major
Works:
Including the Prelude)
William Butler Yeats (Collected Poems)
Collections
The
following collections include poetry written by many of the poets
listed above.
Poetry
for the Spirit (compiled
by Alan Jacobs)
The Best Poems of
the English Language (compiled by
Harold Bloom)
Poetry: A Pocket
Anthology, 4th edition (compiled by
R.S. Gwynn)
The Norton Anthology of
Poetry, 5th edition (compiled by
Margaret Ferguson)
A Book of
Luminous Things: An international
Anthology of Poetry (compiled by Czeslaw Milosz)
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